Diaspora Vintage Portraits/ People

My Uncle Theodore D. Gavrilys in the US Army WW I. Fought in France in the trenches against the Germans.I think this is how he became a U.S citizen as many did back then.

A family gathering at my Uncle Peter D. Gavrilis home in Athens, Ampelokipi area. The lady at far left seated is Pagonitsa Gavriles, my aunt. Lady with white scarf Androniki Lahanas, next to her her husband Gerasimos Lah...

Foto Panaretos (nee Firopoulos). Was my Uncle Alex Panaretos's wife. They had one son, Theordore A. Panaretos, seen in other pictures in this website as a soldier in WW II. Not sure what village she was from in Kythera,...

My mother, Helen (nee Panaretos), and father Nicholas Gavriles in front of their Model A Ford 1929. Parked next to our restaurant "The Atlas Cafe", Highland Park, Michigan. The restaurant was 2 blocks away from the origi...

My mother Helen, far right, and her siblings, while living in Smyrna. There were several other brothers, not in the picture.

Not sure as to the last names of the men on the left. I think the man in the middle is Kassimatis. He was responsible for building the hospital over in Logothetianica by having fund-raising events in various US cities he...

Having fought in France during WW I in the US Army, my uncle Theodore Gavrilys re-enlisted in the Army for WW II and was a seargent. This time he didn't have to go over to Europe. He was stationed in the States in charge...

Kytherian Brotherhood Detroit, Michigan. Top row: 3rd from left Nick Cominos, 2nd from right Paul Galacatos, far right Theodore Georgopoulos (Tzortzopoulos). Bottom row: 2nd from left Emmanuel Georgopoulos (Tzortzopoulos...

My father George Peter Samios, saying a poem at a Greek school concert, Sydney in 1960.

Samios Family photo, taken in Sydney, about 1940. Front row (left to right) Panayioti Samios and Alkiviadis Samios. Back row (left to right) Spiro, George and Frank Samios.

Father of Penelope Samios, Aloizianika. Taken in about 1920.

Photo taken at wedding, 1934, shows: In front row (right to left) Panayioti and Penelope Samios, Panayioti and Katerina Samios/Dimitropolous. In back row (right to left) Yiannoula Samios (later Milonopoulos), Mina and Di...

Penelope and Panayioti were engaged in 1933 and married in 1934 in Aloizianika, Kythera.

State Bar Mourns the Loss of Former Justice Theodore Souris State Bar leaders have expressed deep sadness on the death of Theodore Souris, a former justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, who succumbed to leukemia on June...

Stratis Tzannes (third from right) about to leave Greece for Australia with his bride Phofo (nee Panaretos) (third from left). Also pictured, Peter Crithary (left) and Phofo’s father Spiros Panaretos (second from left) F...

Spiros Panaretos and Eleni Gengos were married on Kythera in 1906. They had seven children, five of whom came to Australia. The second youngest Phofo married Stratis Tzannes from Livadi in 1939. Family name: Panaretos Vi...

From left to right: Manoli Travis, Maria Travis (nee Tzannes), Stratis Tzannes, Annetta Tzannes, Arhondo Tzannes (nee Panaretos), Manoli Tzannes and Kalomira Tzannes (their mother and mother in law) Family name: Tzannes...

From left to right: brothers Con, Jack, Charles and Stratis Tzannes. Stratis, the eldest brother, had arranged for three of his four surviving brothers to migrate to Australia. The fourth and youngest brother Dimitri rem...

When Stratis and Phofo (nee Panaretos) married they had to go to Athens to find a priest who would marry them because Stratis’ brother had earlier married Phofo’s sister and the Kytherian priests would not marry them. Fa...

Stratis (left) and Phofo Tzannes (nee Panaretos) as newlyweds in their first home on arrival in Australia from Greece. Family name: Tzannes & Panaretos Village of origin: Livadi & Potamos Photo taken: 1940